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Book Synopsis Merchants and Explorers by : Heather Dalton
Download or read book Merchants and Explorers written by Heather Dalton and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-27 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early sixteenth century, a young English sugar trader spent a night at what is now the port of Agadir in Morocco, watching from the tenuous safety of the Portuguese fort as the local tribesmen attacked the 'Moors'. Having recently departed the familiar environs of London and the Essex marshes, this was to be the first of several encounters Roger Barlow was to have with unfamiliar worlds. Barlow's family were linked to networks where the exchange of goods and ideas merged, and his contacts in Seville brought him into contact with the navigator, Sebastian Cabot. Merchants and Explorers follows Barlow and Cabot across the Atlantic to South America and back to Spain and Reformation England. Heather Dalton uses their lives as an effective narrative thread to explore the entangled Atlantic world during the first half of the sixteenth century. In doing so, she makes a critical contribution to the fields of both Atlantic and global history. Although it is generally accepted that the English were not significantly attracted to the Americas until the second half of the sixteenth century, Dalton demonstrates that Barlow, Cabot, and their cohorts had a knowledge of the world and its opportunities that was extraordinary for this period. She reveals how shared knowledge as well as the accumulation of capital in international trading networks prior to 1560 influenced emerging ideas of trade, 'discovery', settlement, and race in Britain. In doing so, Dalton not only provides a substantial new body of facts about trade and exploration, she explores the changing character of English commerce and society in the first half of the sixteenth century.
Download or read book Echo written by Joseph Pivato and published by Guernica Editions. This book was released on 2003 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays explores the literature of Italian immigrants in Canada and their children by focusing on the central role that themes of migration hold in their work. Addressing topics such as the oral roots of Canadian immigrant writing, the changing place of women in works of the Italian diaspora, and the persistent difficulties of translation, this work provides an international perspective on some of the most pressing questions in the study of literature today. In addition to Canadian works, the work of immigrant writers from Australia and other countries is also considered, producing nuanced observations of cultural differences and affinities.
Book Synopsis Blurred Nationalities across the North Atlantic by : Luca Codignola
Download or read book Blurred Nationalities across the North Atlantic written by Luca Codignola and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2019-01-01 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long before the mid-nineteenth century, thousands of people were frequently moving between North America - specifically, the United States and British North America - and Leghorn, Genoa, Naples, Rome, Sicily, Piedmont, Lombardy, Venice, and Trieste. Predominantly traders, sailors, transient workers, Catholic priests, and seminarians, this group relied on the exchange of goods across the Atlantic to solidify transatlantic relations; during this period, stories about the New World passed between travellers through word of mouth and letter writing. Blurred Nationalities across the North Atlantic challenges the idea that national origin - for instance, Italianness - constitutes the only significant feature of a group's identity, revealing instead the multifaceted personalities of the people involved in these exchanges.
Book Synopsis Toward the Setting Sun by : David Boyle
Download or read book Toward the Setting Sun written by David Boyle and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most Americans don't look far beyond Christopher Columbus when it comes to the discovery of America, yet the simple fact that we bear the name of Amerigo Vespucci suggests there is more to the story. And indeed, there is: a trio of young Italian pioneers who were merchants more than explorers and who, while in search of glory and vast profits, battled to become the first to cross the western ocean. David Boyle reveals in Toward the Setting Sun, that the race for America was as much about commerce as it was about discovery and conquest. When Constantinople fell to the Ottoman Empire in 1453, the long established trade routes to the East became treacherous and expensive forcing merchants of all sorts to find new ways of obtaining and trading their goods. Enterprising young men took to the sea in search of new lands, new routes, and of course, new fortune. The careers of three young men--Columbus, Vespucci and Giovanni Caboto (known to us as John Cabot) would change not only their personal destinies, but that of the New World. Contrary to popular belief, the three not only knew of each other, they were well acquainted--Columbus and Vespucci at various times worked closely together; Cabot and Columbus were born in Genoa about the same time and had common friends who were interested in Western trade possibilities. They collaborated, knew of each other's ambitions and followed each other's progress. The intersection of their dreams and business ventures led the way to our modern world and ushered in the end of the medieval age. David Boyle skillfully brings together for the first time the three stories that shaped the race for America and in doing so adds a unique economic and business dimension to the earliest days of our country.
Download or read book U.S.A. written by and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fish into Wine written by Peter E. Pope and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining innovative archaeological analysis with historical research, Peter E. Pope examines the way of life that developed in seventeenth-century Newfoundland, where settlement was sustained by seasonal migration to North America's oldest industry, the cod fishery. The unregulated English settlements that grew up around the exchange of fish for wine served the fishery by catering to nascent consumer demand. The English Shore became a hub of transatlantic trade, linking Newfoundland with the Chesapeake, New and old England, southern Europe, and the Atlantic islands. Pope gives special attention to Ferryland, the proprietary colony founded by Sir George Calvert, Lord Baltimore, in 1621, but later taken over by the London merchant Sir David Kirke and his remarkable family. The saga of the Kirkes provides a narrative line connecting social and economic developments on the English Shore with metropolitan merchants, proprietary rivalries, and international competition. Employing a rich variety of evidence to place the fisheries in the context of transatlantic commerce, Pope makes Newfoundland a fresh point of view for understanding the demographic, economic, and cultural history of the expanding North Atlantic world.
Download or read book Acadiensis written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Voyages and Exploration in the North Atlantic from the Middle Ages to the XVIIth Century by : Anna Agnarsdóttir
Download or read book Voyages and Exploration in the North Atlantic from the Middle Ages to the XVIIth Century written by Anna Agnarsdóttir and published by University of Iceland Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of seven papers presented at a special session on Voyages and Exploration in the North Atlantic at the 19th International Congress of Historical Sciences in Oslo, Norway, in 2000. This session was in commemoration of the 1000th anniversary of the first Nordic voyages to the mainland of North America, but the papers also extend the story of Atlantic exploration far forward into the 1800s.
Book Synopsis L'ORDINE DEL SANGUE by : ANDREA GAFFORIO
Download or read book L'ORDINE DEL SANGUE written by ANDREA GAFFORIO and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-03-10 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La Croce, una terra da sempre segnata da faide per il potere, intrighi dei clan e violenza sconsiderata, sembra aver trovato negli ultimi secoli un precario equilibrio, che consente ai quattro sovrani di governare i propri regni, mantenendo salda la propria autorità. Oscuri poteri però tramano nell'ombra, e malvagie creature tornano a mostrarsi particolarmente agguerrite. Di fronte a questa minaccia, molti audaci guerrieri sono decisi a rispondere col sangue, mentre altri ostentano prudenza; il risultato è un dilagante caos che si diffonde tra i popoli, incuneandosi nell'animo di ogni individuo. Hanno inizio battaglie e complotti, mentre una nuova razza, approfittando del crescente delirio, tenta di sovvertire l'ordine, impossessandosi del potere. Sovrani e cavalieri si schierano a seconda dei propri ideali o dei propri interessi, e il destino della Croce sembra divenire sempre più cupo ed incerto..
Book Synopsis Fra Mauro's World Map by : Piero Falchetta
Download or read book Fra Mauro's World Map written by Piero Falchetta and published by Brepols Publishers. This book was released on 2006 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accompanying CD-ROM contains: digital reproduction of Fra Mauro's world map with the ability to navigate within the map and extract information from it.
Book Synopsis Rotas Do Multiculturalismo by : International Comparative Literature Association. Congress
Download or read book Rotas Do Multiculturalismo written by International Comparative Literature Association. Congress and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Bridging the Ocean by : Monica Stellin
Download or read book Bridging the Ocean written by Monica Stellin and published by Forum Edizioni. This book was released on 2006 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La pubblicazione, in lingua inglese, presenta un'introduzione critica ad una serie di opere scritte da italiani che, immigrati in Canada per le più disparate ragioni temporaneamente oppure per stabilirvisi , hanno poi voluto raccontare la loro personale esperienza, sia in forma autobiografica che di finzione, utilizzando come lingua non l'inglese o il francese, bensì l'italiano. La scelta di questo mezzo espressivo ha limitato la diffusione e la conoscenza di questi testi presso il vasto pubblico dei lettori (italo)-canadesi. Questa produzione letteraria, poco indagata nel suo evolversi, nei suoi contenuti e significati, va invece considerata come un passaggio obbligatorio per comprendere gli inizi ed anche l'essenza della presenza culturale e letteraria italiana contemporanea in Canada.
Book Synopsis Italia E la Cultura Canadese by : Anna Pia De Luca
Download or read book Italia E la Cultura Canadese written by Anna Pia De Luca and published by Forum Edizioni. This book was released on 2001 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Come perle d'oceano by : Vanio Garbujo
Download or read book Come perle d'oceano written by Vanio Garbujo and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-12-19 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La vera poesia non ha nulla di sentimentale! La vera poesia è scritta con il sangue. E il sangue per essere attinto, dev'essere versato. E versare il sangue significa morire. E la morte... non ha nulla di sentimentale.
Download or read book Ocean Sea written by Alessandro Baricco and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2000-06-27 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Exotic...erotic... Ocean Sea is highly romantic and breathtakingly lyrical."--The New York Times Book Review With Silk, his first novel to appear in English, Alessandro Baricco immediately proved himself to be a magical storyteller. With Ocean Sea, he has been acclaimed as the successor to Italo Calvino, and a major voice in modern literature. In Ocean Sea, Alessandro Baricco presents a hypnotizing postmodern fable of human malady--psychological, existential, erotic--and the sea as a means of deliverance. At the Almayer Inn, a remote shoreline hotel, an artist dips his brush in a cup of ocean water to paint a portrait of the sea. A scientist pens love letters to a woman he has yet to meet. An adulteress searches for relief from her proclivity to fall in love. And a sixteen-year-old girl seeks a cure from a mysterious condition which science has failed to remedy. When these people meet, their fates begin to interact as if by design. Enter a mighty tempest and a ghostly mariner with a thirst for vengeance, and the Inn becomes a place where destiny and desire battle for the upper hand. Playful, provocative, and ultimately profound, Ocean Sea is a novel of striking originality and wisdom.
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Download or read book The Journal of European Economic History written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Romance Languages Annual written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
